Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy by Douglas A. Anderson

Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy

Douglas A. Anderson with James Branch Cabell, William Hope Hodgson, John Buchan, Ludwig Tieck, L. Frank Baum, E. Nesbit, Frank R. Stockton, Clemence Housman, E.A. Wyke-Smith, Lord Dunsany, E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, David Lindsay, Kenneth Morris, Francis Stevens, Arthur Machen, William Morris, A. Merritt, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, Richard Garnett, Austin Tappan Wright, Andrew Lang, Thomas Carlyle (Translator)

436 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous slow-paced
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Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien ...

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